A Nuke Worker who's too big, too old and too bald, but still thinks he's a runner.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Another Tuesday Tempo Run

I haven't run a short race (5K to 10K) well since 2004. I was looking at my training log from that year and noticed I did a pretty fast tempo run every Tuesday morning for several weeks. I'm going to try that again. Tuesday morning's tempo run was a little better. I ran a mile in my neighborhood and then my "Dow Course", for 5¾ miles total. There's a split at 2 miles on the Dow Course. Yesterday the splits were 13:13 and 12:50. That's a little better than the 13:32 and 13:13 from two weeks ago. But I have to work harder to get to where I was in 2004 when I was consistently running splits in the 12:40s. It was a very nice morning: 48°F, no wind, and plenty of light from the half moon.

2 comments:

Nuke, those are some great splits. Good tempo run!!! Thanks for answering my question regarding higher mileage. After Boston I'm going to go to a higher mileage training plan. I'd like to break 3:30 sometime this year! Breaking 3:25 would even be better.

Hey Nuke, thanks for visiting my blog! The recovery time between the .63 loops was 2-1/2 minutes of brisk walking. I'll tell ya' I really like running speedwork on streets rather than the track, but I can't wait to get back to the track to see what my improvements are there. Hopefully better!